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White House Drops Resistance to Rice's Testimony before 9/11 Terrorism Probe.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004

Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 31--WASHINGTON -- The White House caved yesterday and agreed to put national security adviser Condoleezza Rice before the federal 9/11 commission under oath and in public.

The White House also dropped its insistence that President Bush be interviewed by only the two chairmen of the panel and announced that he and Vice President Cheney would submit to questioning by all 10 commission members.

But unlike witnesses who have testified in public, Bush and Cheney "will not be under oath," said Tom Kean, the commission chairman.

Bush went on television to announce his administration was dropping its opposition to Rice's public testimony, only two days after she insisted...

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